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  • #141
  • Oct 17, 2013 6:01am Oct 17, 2013 6:01am
Quoting thegatan
{quote} http://www.forexfactory.com/attachme...9&d=1369129463 hello, could somebody tell me, how to setting news calender and breaking news look like chart above? i already try drag and drop to "blank.mql" but can't loaded into separate chart?
Try playing with the background external value. I think if you set it to false it will give you thus kind of look.
  • #142
  • Oct 17, 2013 6:03am Oct 17, 2013 6:03am
Great indicator thanks for sharing!!!

Now, plotting historical events on the chart would bring it to the next level.

Thanks.
  • #143
  • Oct 17, 2013 5:52pm Oct 17, 2013 5:52pm
@euclid:
Thanks for this beautiful indi which I am using since (along with one other News-Indi which I have mentioned in an other Thread also!! ) my beginning of trading live ...
May I like to come up with some helpful addition for this indi in case someone has the same need as I have.
I find it very useful to mark the important News with ARROWS in the chart to make my backtests easier.
I think this will help to save some time for everyone here.
It also helps to see where your system is undercut through important News as in my case my system works very fine if I stay out at important News.
Maybe with an additional LOOKBACK feature to make the backtests more handy.

If you have the time to make this additonal coding for this indi it would be very fine.
Thanks for any feedback and info regarding this.
Greeds zack
  • #144
  • Oct 18, 2013 11:26am Oct 18, 2013 11:26am
Hi euclid,

Great tools for news/data reports. Thank you so much for your efforts.

http://charts.mql5.com/2/801/gbpchf-...ri-limited.png
  • #145
  • Oct 21, 2013 12:33am Oct 21, 2013 12:33am
Quoting mattrader
Hi euclid, Great tools for news/data reports. Thank you so much for your efforts. {image}
hello mattrader,

could you please give me template look like on your chart?

i already try "zoranB" tips but i not understand
  • #146
  • Oct 21, 2013 5:41am Oct 21, 2013 5:41am
Quoting thegatan
{quote} hello mattrader, could you please give me template look like on your chart? i already try "zoranB" tips but i not understand
Hi thegatan,

Here is the template. Apply it on any chart without doing anything and compare it to the chart below.

regards,

mattrader

http://www.mql5.com/en/charts/914741...alpari-limited
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  • #147
  • Oct 22, 2013 10:22pm Oct 22, 2013 10:22pm
Quoting mattrader
{quote} Hi thegatan, Here is the template. Apply it on any chart without doing anything and compare it to the chart below. regards, mattrader http://www.mql5.com/en/charts/914741...alpari-limited {file}
Hi mattrader,

thankyou very much for your help, (Y)

  • #148
  • Oct 29, 2013 12:19pm Oct 29, 2013 12:19pm
Hi
why it dos not work?
  • #149
  • Nov 1, 2013 5:10am Nov 1, 2013 5:10am
Great work. Thank you! (NewsCal-v107)
  • #150
  • Edited Nov 9, 2013 3:07am Nov 8, 2013 3:54pm | Edited Nov 9, 2013 3:07am
Hi,

is there any system to include in a EA the NewsCal-v107 indicator?

I have tried to use the icustom command but it dont works (it shows "initialising..." but dont load the calendar)

iCustom(NULL,0,"NewsCal-v107","",true,"CALENDAR",false,true,1,240,48,1,1,0,0,0);

I have tried with all the buffers (0-7) without results


Thanks

yotrader
  • #151
  • Nov 11, 2013 10:36pm Nov 11, 2013 10:36pm
Hey Euclid, superb work. Just what I was looking for. One tiny problem though...when I loaded the NewsBrk v0.04 on my chart it says "No News" (attached screenshot) and I checked the FF news section on their website and its running ok there, I cant figure out why it doesn't show the breaking news on my platform. Please, any help would be greatly appreciated although you've been more than generous providing us this set of very useful trading tools.

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  • #152
  • Nov 11, 2013 10:47pm Nov 11, 2013 10:47pm
Quoting raditech
Hey Euclid, superb work. Just what I was looking for. One tiny problem though...when I loaded the NewsBrk v0.04 on my chart it says "No News" (attached screenshot) and I checked the FF news section on their website and its running ok there, I cant figure out why it doesn't show the breaking news on my platform. Please, any help would be greatly appreciated although you've been more than generous providing us this set of very useful trading tools. {image}
Do you have the last updated calendar file in your /experts/files/ folder.

Just open the file and see if the news are for this current week.
MT4/MT5 EAs/Indicators/Alerts coder
  • #153
  • Nov 12, 2013 12:56am Nov 12, 2013 12:56am
@FerruFx, yes I have an updated file called "NewsBrkFreeCache1.xml" in the /experts/files/ when I open it in browser it shows the latest news in the file but indicator doesnt show, I dont know how to fix this issue - I have other files in /experts/files/ but I think this is the one relevant to this indicator. Any suggestions to what I should do next?

PS - My economic data indicator "NewsCal" works fine and gets updated as usual but my problem is only with this "NewsBrk" indicator.
  • #154
  • Nov 12, 2013 12:59am Nov 12, 2013 12:59am
Quoting raditech
@FerruFx, yes I have an updated file called "NewsBrkFreeCache1.xml" in the /experts/files/ when I open it in browser it shows the latest news in the file but indicator doesnt show, I dont know how to fix this issue - I have other files in /experts/files/ but I think this is the one relevant to this indicator. Any suggestions to what I should do next? PS - My economic data indicator "NewsCal" works fine and gets updated as usual but my problem is only with this "NewsBrk" indicator.
Useless to ask that you allowed DLL in the common tab ... Right ?

If NewsCall works fine, you did already ...
MT4/MT5 EAs/Indicators/Alerts coder
  • #155
  • Nov 12, 2013 1:31am Nov 12, 2013 1:31am
yes obviously! I am a bit of a coder myself and I cant figure out why the indicator cant display the data off the temp xml cache file...too bad we dont have the source code but I will gladly wait for Euclid or anyone who had this problem to suggest me a solution...
  • #156
  • Nov 12, 2013 1:41am Nov 12, 2013 1:41am
Quoting raditech
yes obviously! I am a bit of a coder myself and I cant figure out why the indicator cant display the data off the temp xml cache file...too bad we dont have the source code but I will gladly wait for Euclid or anyone who had this problem to suggest me a solution...
Guess that you also checked that there's no error in experts and/or journal tabs ...
MT4/MT5 EAs/Indicators/Alerts coder
  • #157
  • Nov 12, 2013 1:49am Nov 12, 2013 1:49am
@FerruFx, Nope...no errors so far, just says "initialized" - by the way thanks for trying to figure out the problem but this problem seems very strange to be happening only on my platform so far after reading this whole thread no one had this as far as I can see...I know the indicator fetching the data from FF - if it didnt I would assume something else but everything seems to be in order just not showing the breaking news and its eating me inside out!
  • #158
  • Nov 12, 2013 5:50pm Nov 12, 2013 5:50pm
Quoting raditech
@FerruFx, Nope...no errors so far, just says "initialized" - by the way thanks for trying to figure out the problem but this problem seems very strange to be happening only on my platform so far after reading this whole thread no one had this as far as I can see...I know the indicator fetching the data from FF - if it didnt I would assume something else but everything seems to be in order just not showing the breaking news and its eating me inside out!
There is a parameter called 'TableLookBackHrs'. It is set to 24 by default which means it doesn't show any thing over 24 hours old. If all the news is over 24hrs old, you get the "No news" message. Try increasing it to something big like 1000 to find out if that is the problem.

There might also be a time zone issue. These indicators use the windows date and time settings to calculate UTC. If your windows clock setting doesn't match your windows time zone setting, then the UTC calculation will be wrong. It might be thinking the news is older than it actually is, but this would also affect NewsCal.

Also I have just noticed that changing the windows clock while the indicator is running can confuse it. If you have this (or some other problem) you can completely reset the indicator as follows:
1. Delete NewsBrk from all charts
2. Press F3 and delete the three NewsBrk global variables
3. Add the indicator back on the charts or reload your templates

The same procedure can be used to reset NewsCal if it is not behaving.
  • #159
  • Edited 8:34pm Nov 12, 2013 8:12pm | Edited 8:34pm
Hey Euclid, thanks for getting back to me...as you suggested, I increased TableLookBackHrs to 1000 and saw the breaking news fill up with old data, so it seems the indicator is fine but the problem is that its not updating. I viewed the NewsBrkFreeCache1.xml file and saw that the last data was from 24th October...which is why setting to 1000 recalled those old data. Still, I deleted the global variables and reset the indicator as you said and setting TableLookBackHrs to 24 hours shows "no news" again...anyways NewsCal is working great with no issues. My Windows UTC timezone is correct, hence NewsCal is showing proper local time for the news releases and updates normally.

Interestingly enough, for the sake of figuring out why the indicator cant fetch the latest breaking news, I went to FF rss feeds and opened the breaking news rss feed from: rss.forexfactory.net/news/breakingnews.xml and found out that their website rss feed shows 24th October as the last data updated by the feed. So I guess your indicator is perfectly fine, the problem is with FF not updating their breaking news feed or may be there are no breaking news worth reporting in the feed which is unlikely. I dont know what to think but I can safely say that my MT4 platform/Windows Time settings/indicators are not the problem, the issue is from FF rss feed, so shouldn't you guys be having the same "no news" issue? why am I the only one in this thread to report this??


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PS - here is a screenshot of the NewsBrk indicator when setting TableLookBackHrs to 1000 (please compare it to FF rss breaking news feed and see they are similar) so the indicator is fine :

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  • #160
  • Nov 12, 2013 10:21pm Nov 12, 2013 10:21pm
Why do you complicate things. Use TweetDeck for News Break and add Forex Factory to the follow. Is updated in real time. Of course you can add more sources and get updated with no delay.
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